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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61941</law_id><section_number>64.2-308.11</section_number><catch_line>Personal liability of recipients</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>64.2-308.12</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="64.2">Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Wills and Decedents' Estates</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Rights of Married Persons</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1.1">Elective Share of Surviving Spouse of Decedent Dying on or After January 1, 2017</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Only original recipients of the decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to others, and the donees of the recipients of the decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to others, to the extent the donees have the property or its proceeds, are liable to make a proportional contribution toward satisfaction of the surviving spouse&#x2019;s elective share amount. A person liable to make contribution may choose to give up the proportional part of the decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to him or to pay the <span class="dictionary">value</span> of the amount for which he is liable in cash, or, upon agreement of the surviving spouse, other property. <a id="paragraph-226122" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.11/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If any section or part of any section of this article is preempted by federal <span class="dictionary">law</span> with respect to a payment, an item of property, or any other benefit included in the decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to others, a person who, not for <span class="dictionary">value</span>, receives the payment, item of property, or any other benefit is obligated to return the payment, item of property, or benefit, or is personally liable for the amount of the payment or the <span class="dictionary">value</span> of that item of property or benefit, as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Sources from which elective share payable" href="/64.2-308.10/">64.2-308.10</a>, to the person who would have been entitled to it were that section or part of that section not preempted. <a id="paragraph-226123" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.11/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2016, cc. 187, 269.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
